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President Trump Could Slash $500 Million from Public Broadcasting
Breitbart California ^ | 11/22/16 | Chriss W. Street

Posted on 11/22/2016 5:19:45 PM PST by markomalley

With President-elect Trump promising to pay for his infrastructure and defense spending by defunding non-essential federal spending, one of the first programs on the block could be the almost $500 million spent on public broadcasting.

Despite repeated efforts to kill federal funding of public broadcasting since Republicans won the House in 2010 and Presidential-nominee Mitt Romney made it a campaign promise in 2012, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are spending $470.7 million in U.S. taxpayer cash to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) this year, which provides 15 percent of PBS television and 10 percent of NPR radio broadcasting funding.

Although their charter requires strict non-partisan programing, the public broadcasters are accused of leaning left. An NPR article described the 2016 election results as “nostalgia for a whiter America.”

After Joel Pollak, who serves as Breitbart’s Senior Editor-at-Large and In-house Counsel, defended its Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon from false and defamatory claims of antisemitism and “white nationalism” in a Nov. 16 interview, NPR’s ombudsman/public editor Elizabeth Jensen recommended that the taxpayer-funded radio news service bar future live interviews of conservatives, who may be “normalizing hate speech.” Instead, guests with presumably controversial views should be pre-taped, she said, so that their opinions might be “contextualized.” (NPR clarified on Monday evening that it will continue to air live interviews with conservatives.)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; cutgovernment; cutspending; defundnpr; federalspending; liberaltalkradio; trump; trumpmedia; trumpstillwinning; trumptransition; trumpwinsagain
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To: markomalley

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT


61 posted on 11/22/2016 6:23:24 PM PST by Hildy ("The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it." Orwell)
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To: markomalley

What ever he does, it will be fair and not revenge like obutthole.


62 posted on 11/22/2016 6:24:03 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: markomalley

Let the “TRUMP HATES BIG BIRD” cries begin.


63 posted on 11/22/2016 6:25:20 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: markomalley

Yeah, that might build a bridge!


64 posted on 11/22/2016 6:26:50 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: markomalley

He could but he won’t.


65 posted on 11/22/2016 6:28:14 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors!)
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To: markomalley

Why pour money into that buggy whip factory?

Pray America woke


66 posted on 11/22/2016 6:32:46 PM PST by bray (The Silent Majority ROARED)
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To: ConservativeMind

Good post. Except the migrant story usually runs first. NPR has got to the point of the rest of the Old Media.


67 posted on 11/22/2016 6:34:48 PM PST by nomorelurker
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To: markomalley
Generally agree with the sentiments. However, how about instead putting some talented, media-savvy conservative in charge, and making them run educational programs that devastate the liberal propaganda? Run documentaries like “Hillary's America,” the new documentary on Saul Alinsky, and you get the idea. Unslant the news, of course. But keep the classical music, for sure.
68 posted on 11/22/2016 6:36:27 PM PST by Missouri gal
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To: markomalley

Good idea?

Hell yes, All Things Considered!


69 posted on 11/22/2016 6:37:27 PM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: markomalley

Is that it?

C’mon - he can do better than this.


70 posted on 11/22/2016 6:40:25 PM PST by TomServo
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To: markomalley

oh please oh please oh please oh please


71 posted on 11/22/2016 6:46:50 PM PST by far sider
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To: markomalley

Yes, by all means, please do. There is absolutely no reason why the fed gov should finance tv or radio, no reason at all.


72 posted on 11/22/2016 6:53:23 PM PST by redfreedom (The nation has been saved. Thank you Dear Lord. Long live President Trump!)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Padlock the place and all the member stations. It isn’t exactly unheard of.

A few years ago, SCETV brass decided to padlock the regional station in Beaufort one morning with no notice.

I heard later that a lot of tapes and release forms were tossed in the dump that were held only there.

Granted the little station didn’t do much except a documentary once in a while and little local news.


73 posted on 11/22/2016 6:55:12 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: markomalley

Why stop there? Remove all taxpayer funding.


74 posted on 11/22/2016 6:57:31 PM PST by bigredkitty1 (March 5, 2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: wally_bert

I also want a la carte programming for dish and cable in this administration.


75 posted on 11/22/2016 7:06:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: markomalley

Subtract the government advertisement spending too.


76 posted on 11/22/2016 7:10:55 PM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Not in the slightest.


77 posted on 11/22/2016 7:38:53 PM PST by Read Write Repeat
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To: markomalley

My suggestion all along has been to use PBS and NPR as a vehicle for President Trump to address the nation on a weekly basis, much like FDR and his fireside chats. Liberals might object, but the “P” in both of them stands for “Public”.


78 posted on 11/22/2016 7:42:50 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: PJBankard

What? Is this for real?!! I can’t believe it!!!


79 posted on 11/22/2016 7:43:06 PM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: markomalley

Yay! Kill the post office too!


80 posted on 11/22/2016 7:45:25 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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